Garbage-bag.



N0. 805,453. 1 PATENTED NOV. 28, 1.905.

E. J. DEEGAN & G. H. PROIFEN.

GARBAGE BAG.

APPLICATION IILED JUNE 14, 1905 I QL WITNESSES ki. mm.

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. DEEGAN AND CHARLES H. PROFFEN, OF NEW YORK, N Y

GARBAGE-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed June 14=,1905. Serial No. 265,255.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. DEEGAN and CHARLES H. PROFFEN, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Garbage-Bag, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in garbage-bags.

Theobject of the invention is toprevide a garbage-bag composed of air-tight and watertight fabric which on account of its novel con-' struction is capable of being collapsed so that for transportation empty it will occupya minimum of space and when distended for filling will be stiff enough to support its own weight.

The object of the invention is also to pro vide an air-tight and water-tight garbage-bag formed of a fabric capable of being charged with disinfecting media and having on its edges novel reinforcements which While they I during the time the bag is being filled will hold it up after the bag has been sufficiently filled are capable of being twisted on the gathered neck of the bag, so as to hold it both water and air tight.

The invention has also divers other objects which will be fully hereinafter set forth.

The nature of the invention will be fully understood from the following general description and the annexed drawings and willbe subsequently pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are hereby made a part of this specification, Figure I is a side View of our newly-invented garbage-bag when collapsed for transportation empty. Fig. II is an another View of the same when distended for filling. Fig. III is another view of the same when filled and closed. Fig. IV is a sectional view of the same when distended, taken on a transverse plane about midway from the top to the bottom of Fig. II.

A designates the body of the bag. This may be made of any stout waterproof and airtight paper or any other similar material which iscapable of being saturated with disinfecting media.

E and F designate the seam reinforcements. These are made each of a folded strip of sheet metal, which may be of any kind not easily oxidized. These metallic strips have each a plurality of deep notches corrugating one edge and a plurality of shallower notches corrugating the other edge, as shown by Z) and 6 of Fig. I. The body of the bag consists of only one piece of material folded at the bottom, so that it has seams only on the sides. On these are compressed the reinforcing-strips E and F, so that the folded edges of the same on the side next to the edge 6 will extend a little farther inwardly than the said edges 6, as illustrated.

the parts when the bag is thus distended thatone side of the bag-body drawing against the longer folded edges of the reinforcing-strips contiguous to the corrugated edges 5 will cause the said edge 6 to turn in next to the bag-body, leaving the edge 7/ outward, and so prevent the points of the said edge 6 from catching on anything while the bag so filled is being manipulated and transported. When the bag is sufficiently filled, the operator gathers'up the top edge of the bag in the common and wellknown way. He then twists the bag-top so that the parts will assume the position illustrated at E and F of Fig. III. It will then be found that while the reinforcing-strips E and F are strong enough to holdthe bag while it is being filled they are also on account of the corrugations b and b capable of being twisted around the neck of the bag, as illustrated. This is greatlyfacilitated by the fact that the larger corrugations 6 turn in to the bag-body, and thus allow the reinforcing-strip to bend edgewise, so as to twist around the bag-- neck without any breakage and to hold the bag-mouth so securely closed that nothing can escape through it. When the bag is so closed. it will be air-tight all around, and the disinfecting media with which it has been saturated operating on the contents will disinfect it, so that it will not be offensive when opened. To open the bag, the top is untwisted. This straightens out the reinforcing-strips so far 2:

that the contents of the bag may be easily emptied out. In practice, however, these bags can be made so inexpensive that they can be thrown away and new ones substituted at so small a cost that it would hardly pay to empty them.

What we claim'as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a garbage-bag the combination with a bag-body of waterproof and air-tight fabric, so folded as to have only side seams, of reinforcing-strips having one deeply-corrugated edge and one shallow-corrugated edge clamped upon said seams and reinforcing said bag.

2. In a garbage-bag the combination with a bag-body of waterproof and air-tight fabric, treated with disinfecting media, and folded so as to have only side seams, of reinforcingstrips, having corrugated edges, one edge of each being notched deeper than the other edge thereof, said strips clamped on the said side seams, affording facility for closing and opening said bag, having each a folded edge contiguous to, and extending farther inward to ward the said bag-body than, said deepernotched edge, and in connection with said body turning said deeper notched edge in- I5 Ward.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWV. J. DEEGAN. CHARLES H. PBOFFEN. Witnesses:

R. F. HUBER, N. L. HILTAWSKI. 

